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13-letter words containing f, e, b, r

  • fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications)   An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
  • flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
  • frame grabber — (hardware)   A device that captures a single frame from an analog video signal (from a video camera or VCR) and stores it as a digital image under computer control.
  • frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
  • free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory)   (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • herb of grace — rue2 .
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